About Healthy Weight PRU
Aim
Our goal is to undertake research of the highest quality to support the Department of Health and Social Care (England) and its partners to:
- Combat the environments and systems that drive obesity;
- Modify behaviours that encourage obesity;
- Reduce health inequalities and the consequences of obesity across the life-span.
Vision
- To provide the evidence needed to help government deploy policy to reduce the prevalence and burden of obesity and its comorbidities across the life-course.
- To work with world-class researchers from a broad range of backgrounds. To work effectively with patients and public representatives.
- To use cutting-edge methodologies
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are central to the way the collaboration works and to the work itself, including our focus on inequalities and research gaps. Our work will focus on multiple disadvantages, including gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and socioeconomic status. This is enabled by our commitment to engagement with and involvement of diverse stakeholders throughout the research and policy cycle and integration of reproductive rights as a cross-cutting concern.
Find out more
The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight is part of the NIHR and hosted by UCL.